As COVID-19 is ramping up here in Colorado, therapists' phones are ringing off the hook with old clients wanting to re-connect and new clients wanting their first appointments. It happened this way during the AIDS epidemic. It happened this way during the aftermath of 9-11 and the Katrina {...}
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Self-of-the-Therapist
The Real Value Of Peer Consultation In Private Practice
Jeffrey Kottler writes in his book On Being a Therapist about the hypocrisy of our profession in asking our clients to do what we are unwilling to do ourselves - to make ourselves vulnerable and to ask for and accept help.
While still in graduate school, I was invited to join my colleague and her {...}
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Psychotherapists In Transition – A Podcast Interview by Dr. Christopher Quarto
Change happens . . . to clients and therapists alike.
In the last month, I've spoken with a lot of therapists about transitions:
Four are in the midst of relocating their practices to new cities or states;
One just lost a pregnancy;
One was just diagnosed with breast cancer;
Seven {...}
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Tech Countertransference And The One Question You Need To Be Asking Yourself
Licensed Professional Counselor Roy Huggins was the first person that ever talked to me about that gray-green feeling I get whenever someone talks to me about HIPAA and IT stuff and, frankly anything that remotely addresses digital security for mental health professionals.
I'm embarrassed to {...}
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